How come nobody is criticizing Brett Favre for the position he has put the Packers in? A franchise who stood by him no matter how terrible he was on the field. Two years ago, based on numbers only, he was one of the worst quarterbacks in the league.
When most franchises would have released a seemingly washed-up 36 year-old quarterback, the Packers stood by him. Fact is, I've never seen a franchise stick with an old quarterback that long while paying him top dollar.
Yet how does Brett Favre repay them? He dubiously announced his retirement, which I thought was an "f*** you" to the Packers a day after Randy Moss resigned with the Patriots. It is wildly known that Brett Favre tried to get Randy to come to the Packs the previous year and thought that they could have gotten him for "less money".
At that moment, I thought, "what an hypocrite!" How can a guy who makes over $10 million a year try to sucker a guy as good as Randy to sign for less money? Yet nobody called him out on it.
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Same thing when Javon Walker was trying get a new contract: Brett criticized him. Again, nobody called him out on his hypocrisy.
And for the past three years Brett Favre has put the Packers into this waiting game where they don't know wether he will retire or report for training camp. Not to mention he had already called McCarthy about a comeback in March, but retracted it right before the draft.
So nobody can blame the Packers who decided enough was enough and designated Aaron Rodgers as their quarterback. Now, right before training camp, he selfishly decides that he's ready to comeback again.
Nobody has gotten on him for being a diva. Nobody has noted that this might in fact doomed the Packers'season since training camp is crucial to starting quarterbacks.
So now you have a divided locker room with one side for Aaron Rodgers and another hoping for Brett Favre to come back. You think the latter half will whole-heartedly follow Rodgers whom they already have doubt about?
Should the Packers have a losing record after the first three games, I guarantee this season will be a disaster. Yet nobody is criticizing him.
Where are the people who got on Chad Johnson? on Terrel Owens? on Jeremy Shockey? Where are they? you don't hear a word from them. That's what you call the Hypocrisy of the Media.
This is why I not only agree with Jean-Jackques Taylor's column saying that Brett Favre is the most overrated "good" quarterback ever, but he's also the biggest diva of them all.
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4 months ago
ALL I CAN SAY IS YOU BETTER BE WATCHING FOX NEWS AT 9. YOU ARE FIXING TO HEAR BRETT'S SIDE OF THE RANDY MOSS STORY AND YOU WILL WRITE A RETRACTION. THERE ARE 2 SIDES TO EVERY STORY AND IN ABOUT 5 MINUTES, YOU WILL SEE BRETT'S. THE PACKERS HAVE PRESS RELEASES 5 TIMES A DAY. THEIR PROPAGANDA IS OUT. JUST WATCH WITH AN OPEN MIND AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK. 5 MINUTES FROM NOW, BE THERE.
from 4 months ago
Obviously not. Favre's "side" of the story is that we are to believe he cannot trust Thompson when in fact he has been less honest than any player in recent memory. Read my article, Brett Favre: the Final Word? and you will see why. And the Packers have not even released a press release on this subject every five days, much less five/day!
Liked most of what you had to say, Ralph, but I also commented on the "most overrated" article because it is a wildly off-base assertion (see there for why). As for the double-standard, I was thinking it was racially motivated, but you made a good point about Shockey. ESPN and Madden just love Favre so much he gets all the bias.
14 days ago
Javon Walker was a first round draft pick who had a breakout season and wanted to renegotiate his contract. Favre's criticism was based on his experience of players having one or two good season and then demanding more money, only to under perform later. If Javon had stayed with his contract, the Packers would have taken care of him. He eventually changed his mind and injured his ACL in the first game of the season.
For the media being biased...you say Favre put the Packers in the waiting game as to whether he will retire or not? It is THE MEDIA that brought up the issue of Favre's retirement year after year, they were the ones asking him if he was to retire, or it was ESPN CONSTANTLY debating if Favre should come back, if he still "had it", if he was too old, etc. Had the media not made a gigantic deal out of it, the off season would have came and went and we would have known no different.
I don't know where you get "seemingly washed up", a quaterback whose team makes the NFC championship last year cannot fit that category.
Yes he made a mistake in retiring, but what if he had said he would play and than right before the season had a change of mind in the other direction, and wanted to retire? Then people would be calling him selfish for that too.
I guess the guy can't win, the media claims to love him, while at the same time magnifying every aspect of every thing he does, while others claim that the media loves him
If you've been in the league for 15 years with the same team, training camp is not as crucial as you claim it to be. Generally it is more of an issue of conditioning and if you are healthy enough to compete, which can be accomplished personally, not necessitating the attendance at training camp like a rookie would need.
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